“Catching Feelings” ft. Six60
The final track on the album features Drax Project’s labelmates Six60, who met the band at a New Zealand festival two years ago. To hear Singh tell it, Six60’s Marlon and Matiu gave them some vital advice about stripping a song down to its bones — just a voice and an instrument — as a measure of how solid it actually is.
“They explained it like, ‘The song should stand alone,'” Singh explained. “We learned a lot from that, and I don’t think we would have written ‘Woke Up Late’ or ‘Smart Love’ without it. It gave us a different perspective on how to write music.”
The piano outro was performed by Singh’s high school friend Leonardo, and the chanting bridge is from March 2017, when the band, Marlon, and Matiu recorded the vocals around a single microphone. “If you take into account when that song was written… we were still working at our day jobs,” Singh said.
Certainly, a lot has changed for Drax Project since then — and this new album is just the beginning.
